Washington Briefs
This blawg covers the intersection of law and politics in Washington.
Author: Lawrence Hurley covers Congress for the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Blawg Related Categories: Government Law • Judiciary • Legislation & Lobbying • U.S. Supreme Court • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from Washington Briefs
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Stephen Colbert: Referendum 71 Signers Should Be Allowed To Stay In The Closet
Last week, the Supreme Court stopped the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from authorizing the release of the names of people who signed a petition to put Referendum 71, Washington state’s equivalent of Proposition…
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Justices Hang With The Queen
ot that they are suckers for pageantry or anything, but three U.S. Supreme Court justices tagged along when the U.K. Supreme Court was opened earlier today. They rubbed shoulders with the likes of Queen Elizabeth…
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Justice Ginsburg In Hospital Again
The U.S. Supreme Court public information office just issued a release stating that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized again Wednesday night after “an apparent adverse reaction to a sleeping aid combined with cold medication”…
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Chief Justice Dons His Umpire Uniform Again
If you thought Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s remarks about judges being umpires who are “servants of the law” was just a cute soundbite designed to win confirmation to the Supreme Court, then think…
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The Verdict On C-Span’s SCOTUS Show
Your blogger was a little disappointed with the episode of C-Span’s Supreme Court series that focused on the reporters who cover the court. There was a little bit too much discussion of the justices and…
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Surprise Of The Day: Scalia and ACLU Don’t See Eye-To-Eye
During today’s U.S. Supreme Court argument about a cross that sits in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert, Justice Antonin Scalia and a lawyer for the ACLU got into a bit of a…
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Human Sacrifice at the Supreme Court
It’s only the second day of the term, but the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are already indulging in their love for colorful hypothetical questions seemingly aimed at flummoxing the lawyers appearing before them.…
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New U.K. Supreme Court Not So Open After All
It seems like the new U.K. Supreme Court is not quite so transparent as we were expecting. Yes, all hearings will be televised, unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, but, as the UK Press Gazette reports,…
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Ginsburg Taken To Hospital
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to hospital this evening after feeling faint. The 76-year old was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. This is the full release from the Supreme Court public information…
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Roberts, Alito and Citizens United
There’s been a lot of debate over the last week about how the Supreme Court will rule in Citizens United v. FEC, the major campaign finance case that was re-argued Sept. 9. For what it’s…